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Flashcards by Danielle Dietz, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Danielle Dietz
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| American Indian Movement | This movement worked to obtain compensation for the land that had been taken away from the American Indians. |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. |
| de jure segregation | Segregation enforced by law |
| Betty Friedan | Wrote The Feminine Mystique and helped organize the National Organization of Women to advocate for equal rights for women |
| segregation | separation of races |
| de facto segregation | Segregation by custom or practice |
| Brown v. Board of Education | overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that had allowed separate public schools and ruled that de jure segregation was a violation to the 14th amendment. |
| integration | The process of ending segregation |
| Civil disobedience | protest without violence. |
| The 24th Amendment | Made poll taxes illegal. |
| Cesar Chavez | Started the Latin America labor movement and the National Farm Workers Association. |
| The New Frontier | President Kennedy's domestic policy that funded education, medical care to elderly and help for rural areas |
| Plyllis Schlafly | Opposed the Equal Rights Amendment for women. She was a conservative activist that thought the E.R.A. would take away certain female privileges. |
| Reaganomics | President Reagan's domestic policy that was to fix the economy |
| New Federalism | President Nixon's domestic policy that gave more power to the state governments instead of the federal government |
| Domestic Policy | Refers to things that happen here in the United States and do not involve other countries |
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